Mairead O'Dwyer (researcher with Newstalk) viciously attacked with knife

Dave!

Hey folks,

I've heard Seán Moncrieff referring to Mairead and how she was attacked, how people are sending in their best wishes, etc, but I didn't realise how serious it was.

Just had a search and found this article:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gardai-hunt-radio-girls-stalker-680545.html

"THE FATHER of the young journalist whose throat was slit in a vicious attack today appealed for public help in finding the knifeman. His call came as gardai believe radio researcher Mairead O’Dwyer was targeted by a stalker as she left a Dublin nightclub.

Horrific stuff. All the best to Mairead, hopefully she'll be alright

mike65

Heard about though not Moncriefs discussion which I knew he was having on Monday or yesterday. Apart from it being mentioned in the news headlines, Newstalk did'nt 'go to town' on it which was good, maybe someone had a bit of wit and decided the familiy did'nt need the grief.

Mike.

Dave!

mike65 wrote:

Heard about though not Moncriefs discussion which I knew he was having on Monday or yesterday. Apart from it being mentioned in the news headlines, Newstalk did'nt 'go to town' on it which was good, maybe someone had a bit of wit and decided the familiy did'nt need the grief.

Mike.

Yeah Seán hasn't gone into any detail on the show, that's why I had to google it. Just at the end of the show every day he thanks people for their emails, etc.

RadioRetro

He made an appeal for any witnesses to contact the Gardai on Monday at the end of his show. Got quite choked up towards the end of his appeal. Horrific thing, best wishes to the lady.

Greenman

I hear someone is helping the garda with their inquiries since today. Still dosent lessen the grief and pain.

kpnuts

Man to appear at District Court this morning...

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/man-to-be-charged-over-knife-attack-on-radio-researcher-685670.html

r3nu4l

Just a quick update from the Indo.

I hope she manages to recover!

liamdubh

Likely story. "I heard voices". Just some drunken thug out for random violence against a defenseless girl in my opinion. Fair play to the Gardai for finding him. Shocking stuff. If she's survived this long she'll recover, you probably never recover fully from something like that but she's out of intensive care according to newspaper reports so she should be ok long-term, thankfully.

Fnz

Mairead was on Newstalk just now.

Thanking everyone for their well wishes on live radio was emotional for her.

She's doing fine though.

LostinBlanch

Yeah, I just heard her.

Glad to see that she's strong enough to go back to work. Am not surprised that she was very emotional on radio, especially since she ws thanking everyone for helping her get through it.

Good luck to her.

mike65

Good news alright.That and the fact the attacker was caught.

Mike.